Marko Fakin

Coming Up

Since 2010, Marko Fakin has held the winemaker role at Fakin Winery, giving the house a consistency that can be read across vintages. Over that span, the work has settled into a recognizable balance: old methods kept active, modern tools used without overstatement. In a place like Istria, Croatia, that balance is not decorative. It is the practical shape of a cellar that knows what it wants to preserve and what it is willing to update.

Where They Are Now

At Fakin Winery in Istria, the present tense of the work is straightforward: hand-picking comes first, and technology enters only where it adds value. Marko Fakin’s approach keeps the emphasis on craft discipline rather than display. The cellar’s identity comes from that restraint, where traditional labor is not staged as nostalgia and modern methods are not treated as a style statement, but as tools used with judgment.

Signature

Teran Il Primo, Teran Michel, Fakin B&M, Malvasia La Prima, and Chamal sparkling wine map the range of the Fakin Winery lineup. Marko Fakin’s named bottlings show a house that gives weight to distinction and naming, with Teran appearing in multiple expressions, Malvasia holding its own place, and Chamal sparkling wine extending the range with a different register. The list reads as a cellar’s working vocabulary: repeated varieties handled with specificity, and each label positioned to signal its own identity.

In Their Words “I think what's unique and part of the magic of our brand is that we hand-pick our grapes using the old traditional methods, and also use modern technology where it makes sense.” The quote states the house rule plainly. For Marko Fakin, the point is not tradition as ornament, but tradition as working method, with technology brought in only when it improves the wine. That approach keeps the brand anchored in manual vineyard work while allowing the cellar to use present-day tools without losing its center.